Bill Pollock Publishes Books About Linux and Open Source

Did you know that MS Word on Linux using WINE works better than Word on Windows? Neither did we until we heard it from Bill Pollock, publisher of No Starch Press. He also answers the question: Who makes a better writer, a proprietary software user or a Linux user?

The Video FOSS Force Interview

Meet Bill Pollock, founder, CEO and chief editor of No Starch Press, who loves to put out books about Linux and Open Source for reasons he explains in the interview. But No Starch also publishes books about Legos, security, and a lot of other, seemingly unrelated topics that fall at least broadly under the “geek interest” label. Interested in hacking cars, teaching electronics to kids or showing an older friend or relative how to use Facebook? No Starch has you covered. Want to write a book? Pollock doesn’t publish a lot of titles, but you never know. He’s open to almost anything interesting about Linux and Open Source — and interested, if less so (for reasons he explains in the interview) in titles about proprietary software. FYI, Pollock is a Linux user himself, and does most of his editing with LibreOffice, so he has unimpeachable personal Open Source credentials.

After you watch today’s interview, you may want to check out a Reddit “Ask Me Anything” Pollock and some of his authors did in December, 2015. It will give you even more insight into how tech book publishers think, from one of the craft’s finest practitioners.

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August’s Top Ten

These are the ten most read articles on FOSS Force for the month of August, 2016.

1. Why Desktop Linux Still Hasn’t Taken Over the World by Christine Hall. Published August 15, 2016. The reason why use of the Linux desktop has never taken off has nothing to do with the operating system and everything to do with money.

2. Reviving Old Macs Using Linux by Phil Shapiro. Published August 23, 2016. These days, thanks to Apple’s move to Intel about a decade back, bringing new life to an old Mac by installing your favorite Linux distro is just as easy as it is with a standard PC, as you will see in this video.

3. Five Favorite Linux Distros by Christine Hall. Published August 8, 2016. Like everybody, we love “five best” lists. Trouble is, how can we come up with a five best list of anything when we haven’t even begun to look at them all? What we can do is list “five favorites,” like we’ve done with this list of five favorite Linux distros.

4. Dumping Windows Overboard Because Linux Does It All by Robert Glen Fogarty. Published August 4, 2016. In this week’s installment, our GNU/Linux newbie decides to go all in and take the training wheels off his Linux laptop.

5. Manjaro Linux: Should You Trust Love at First Sight? by Christine Hall. Published August 10, 2016. If first impressions can be trusted, Manjaro Linux would seem to be a Linux lover’s dream. But how much can you really tell about a distro on a short test drive?

6. The Positives and Negatives of Arduino by Isaac Carter. Published August 17, 2016. The big news in the single board computer realm recently hasn’t been with the Raspberry Pi, but with actions centering around Arduino…or should we say Arduinos?

7. When Slashdot Was the Hub for FOSS News and Discussion by Robin “Roblimo” Miller. Published August 4, 2016. The original Slashdot crew was declared redundant in early 2016 by the site’s latest owner, Slashdot Media. Timothy Lord was the last of the early Slashdot editors to be let go, and has posted more stories on Slashdot than anyone else, ever, so we turned to him to learn how and why Slashdot helped the FOSS movement grow and eventually infiltrate mainstream IT.

8. STEAMpunking Linux: The Physical Computing Stack by Rob “drtorq” Reilly. Published August 9, 2016. Combining steampunk with Linux and single board computers like the Raspberry Pi automatically seems like an idea fraught with cool possibilities. So does the bigger picture, which Reilly hits on in this article.

9. How to Install Ubuntu on a Chromebook Pixel by Phil Shapiro. Published August 16, 2016. Chromebooks are really nice laptops, except for one tiny problem which is…well, Chrome OS. This week, our contributing video editor found an easy to follow step-by-step guide for installing Ubuntu on a Chromebook Pixel. Problem solved.

10. Our First Look at Linux Mint 18 Cinnamon by Christine Hall. Published July 25, 2016. It’s been almost a month since Linux Mint 18 “Sarah” was released, so we decided to take it for a spin and have our first ever look at the Cinnamon desktop.

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Distribution Release: Manjaro Linux 16.08

Philip Muller has announced the release of Manjaro Linux 16.08, a desktop-oriented distribution originally forked from Arch Linux. This version comes in two editions, shipping the Xfce 4.12 and KDE Plasma 5.7 desktops: "After two months of development, we are happy to present Manjaro 'Ellada' to you! The....

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Development Release: Pisi Linux 2.0 Beta 2

The second beta release of the upcoming Pisi Linux 2.0, a new version of the desktop Linux distribution forked from the original Pardus Linux, is now ready for testing: "The new 2.0 beta 2 is now available. What is waiting for you in this version? Many programs, such....

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GTK+ 3.22 to Fully Support Wacom Tablets on Wayland, Switch to XDG-Shell 6

We reported earlier on the upcoming features of the several GNOME components and apps, including Nautilus, Polari, Mutter, and GNOME Games, and now we would like to tell you about some of the goodies landing the GTK+ 3.22 toolkit this September.

A new development snapshot of the GTK+ 3.22 GUI (Graphical User Interface) toolkit has been released as part of the second Beta milestone of the GNOME 3.22 desktop environment, version 3.21.5, which brin... (read more)

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GNOME Games to Get Major Update for GNOME 3.22 with Flatpak Support, More

We told you earlier about the new features coming to the Nautilus, Polari, and Mutter components of the forthcoming GNOME 3.22 desktop environment, and now Adrien Plazas informs us about the availability of the second Beta release of GNOME Games 3.22.

GNOME Games is a recent addition to the GNOME 3 Stack, and it has been engineered as a library manager for your video games, allowing hardcore Linux gamers to effortlessly pick and play a game directly from the beautiful and dark user i... (read more)

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Mutter Updated for GNOME 3.22 with Support for Monitor Rotation on Wayland

The Mutter window and compositing manager is yet another important component of the popular GNOME desktop environment that received many improvements during the GNOME 3.22 development cycle, besides Polari and Nautilus.

A second Beta development snapshot of the upcoming Mutter 3.22 release, which will be available on September 21, 2016, as part of the launch of the highly anticipated GNOME 3.22 desktop environment, has been made available for public beta testing by one of its maintainers, namely Florian Müllner.

According to the internal changelog attached to the source archive, Mutter 3.22 Beta 2 is here to add several improvements to the next-generation Wayland display server, such as monitor rotation... (read more)

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Krita 3.0 and i3 Tilling Window Manager Are Now in Solus, Along with Many Games

Solus developer and package maintainer Joshua Strobl informs the GNU/Linux community about some of the latest applications and technologies that landed in the distribution's software repository.

Yes, that's right, a new installation of the This Week in Solus (THiS) newsletter has arrived, issue 34, and things are starting to look pretty good from the perspective of the Solus newcomer, as more and more open-source applications and programs are being added to the repository for them to add on a fresh Solus installation.

Among these, we can mention the popular Krita 3.0 digital painting tool and Kdenlive 16.08.0 video editor. They are now available in the Solus repos if you want to install them, because, after all, Solus is a rolling release operating system, so there's no need for you to wait for some big point release of new ISO images.

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Nautilus 3.22 Adds Batch File Renaming, Native Compression Features

There are plenty of new and improved features to enjoy in Nautilus 3.22, which is on course to ship as part of GNOME 3.22 late next month.

This post, Nautilus 3.22 Adds Batch File Renaming, Native Compression Features, was written by Joey-Elijah Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

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GNOME's Polari IRC Client to Support NickServ Passwords, Channel Autojoin

The Nautilus file manager is not the only GNOME component that received new exciting features and improvements during the development cycle of the upcoming GNOME 3.22 desktop environment.

And today, we would like to inform our readers about some of the new features coming to the Polari IRC client, which is currently in the Beta stages of development. Polari 3.22 Beta 2 has been released for public testing earlier, as announced by its maintainer Florian Müllner.

As you might know already, Polari is a simple IRC Client designed from the ground up to integrate seamlessly with the latest GNOME 3 desktop environment, and the upcoming major release promises interesting additions, such as support for NickServ passwords, as well as support for exter... (read more)

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Nautilus 3.22 File Manager to Add Batch Renaming Tool, Compressed File Support

The development cycle of the upcoming GNOME 3.22 desktop environment continues at a fast pace, and we can now get our hands on the first Beta pre-release version, which contains many updated core components and applications.

A second Beta milestone of GNOME 3.22 is expected to launch later today, August 31, 2016, or by the end of the week if more bugs need to be fixed, but some of the GNOME apps have already received a Beta 2 release, such as the powerful and widely-used Nautilus file manager.

Nautilus 3.22 Beta 2 snapshot is now available for public testing, and, believe it or not, this is also the first development milestone released for the upcoming GNOME 3.22 desktop environment. There aren't so many changes, but they're pretty important for us, Linux users, who use Nautilus every single day during our computing sessions

As usua... (read more)

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GhostBSD 10.3 "Enoch" Officially Released with ZFS and UEFI Support, More

Today, August 31, 2016, the GhostBSD project was pleased to announce the general availability of the final release of their GhostBSD 10.3 "Enoch" operating system based on the latest FreeBSD technologies.

GhostBSD 10.3 has been in development for the past 12 months, during which the development team released two Alpha builds, a Beta milestone, and a Release Candidate, which pretty much contained all the features contained in the final version.

These include ZFS support, UEFI support, better VirtalBox support, 4k partition alignment enabled by default, the ability to create custom partitions during installation, updated GhostBSD Software tool, SLIM login manager, and redesigned installer slide.

Based on the FreeBSD 10.3 operating system, GhostBSD 10.3 comes with a new version of the Networkmgr utility, which supports displaying of full SSIDs, and it addresses many of the issues reported by users since last year's previous stable release.

"After a year of developme... (read more)

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LinuxCON Kids’ day

Part of this year’s LinuxCON / ContainerCON in Toronto was a full day program called Kids’ Day. Its purpose was to foster an interest in technology among junior nerds and the children of their nerd parents (raises hand). My 12 and 15 year olds were keen to lay hands on some hardware and hang out with like-minded instructors, so we signed up.

What we did not know at the time was that the program was organized by Kids on Computers (@kidsoncomputers, http://www.kidsoncomputers.org/), a charity dedicated toward bringing technology to communities where it doesn’t exist and where there is no internet access. Much of the first part of the session involved having the kids wipe Windows from a bunch of donated laptops and install GNU/Linux on them before they were to be shipped to Mexico as part of this endeavor. By my count, 17 kids were given flash drives with Ubermix (http://www.ubermix.org/) and were walked through the steps to boot off of the flash drive, select the script that did the nuking and paving. I imagined I could smell the uranium and asphalt on the ground.

Having cleansed and consecrated the hardware, the children were instructed to connect to a local network containing an Intel NUC specially designed to act as an offline Wikipedia / Khan Academy / Open Street Maps / <So much more> server. Once that was done, it was a simple matter to enter “school” into the laptop’s Firefox browser to pull up the school interface and to see what was there. A complete listing of the services offered can be found on the kidsoncomputers.org site (http://www.kidsoncomputers.org/knowledge–base) but I understand the NUC cost a little under $300 and runs CentOS.

As the laptops were connected to an ad-hoc network, they were able to ping and SSH to one another on the local network. The kids were shown how to do that and how to use SCP to move a greeting to other laptops with minimal/no security. When asked what I thought his greeting should say, I suggested ‘sudo apt install malware,’ which elicited a few chuckles. My sons had a grand time shutting each other’s systems down before I reminded them that they could change their administrator passwords or turn on the firewall. Thankfully, the instructors decided to move us along before things devolved into a mini black-hat conference.

The rest of the morning had the group playing with Scratch. For those of us old enough to remember, Scratch might remind you of the Logo language from a generation ago. But instead of moving a turtle around to create different shapes, you move a cat around and… create different shapes. The times, they are a changing.

The afternoon focused almost exclusively on the Arduino (https://www.arduino.cc/). Kids connected Arduino Unos to their former windows laptops and used the installed Arduino IDE to upload programs they created or modified to make lights blink faster or slower, make speakers play tunes and respond to button presses.

All in all, Kids’ Day was extremely productive – for the kids, certainly, but for the community, for the other kids to be served by their efforts and for the amazing instructors who put it all together.

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LinuxCON Kids’ day

Part of this year’s LinuxCON / ContainerCON in Toronto was a full day program called Kids’ Day. Its purpose was to foster an interest in technology among junior nerds and the children of their nerd parents (raises hand). My 12 and 15 year olds were keen to lay hands on some hardware and hang out with like-minded instructors, so we signed up.

What we did not know at the time was that the program was organized by Kids on Computers (@kidsoncomputers, http://www.kidsoncomputers.org/), a charity dedicated toward bringing technology to communities where it doesn’t exist and where there is no internet access. Much of the first part of the session involved having the kids wipe Windows from a bunch of donated laptops and install GNU/Linux on them before they were to be shipped to Mexico as part of this endeavor. By my count, 17 kids were given flash drives with Ubermix (http://www.ubermix.org/) and were walked through the steps to boot off of the flash drive, select the script that did the nuking and paving. I imagined I could smell the uranium and asphalt on the ground.

Having cleansed and consecrated the hardware, the children were instructed to connect to a local network containing an Intel NUC specially designed to act as an offline Wikipedia / Khan Academy / Open Street Maps / <So much more> server. Once that was done, it was a simple matter to enter “school” into the laptop’s Firefox browser to pull up the school interface and to see what was there. A complete listing of the services offered can be found on the kidsoncomputers.org site (http://www.kidsoncomputers.org/knowledge–base) but I understand the NUC cost a little under $300 and runs CentOS.

As the laptops were connected to an ad-hoc network, they were able to ping and SSH to one another on the local network. The kids were shown how to do that and how to use SCP to move a greeting to other laptops with minimal/no security. When asked what I thought his greeting should say, I suggested ‘sudo apt install malware,’ which elicited a few chuckles. My sons had a grand time shutting each other’s systems down before I reminded them that they could change their administrator passwords or turn on the firewall. Thankfully, the instructors decided to move us along before things devolved into a mini black-hat conference.

The rest of the morning had the group playing with Scratch. For those of us old enough to remember, Scratch might remind you of the Logo language from a generation ago. But instead of moving a turtle around to create different shapes, you move a cat around and… create different shapes. The times, they are a changing.

The afternoon focused almost exclusively on the Arduino (https://www.arduino.cc/). Kids connected Arduino Unos to their former windows laptops and used the installed Arduino IDE to upload programs they created or modified to make lights blink faster or slower, make speakers play tunes and respond to button presses.

All in all, Kids’ Day was extremely productive – for the kids, certainly, but for the community, for the other kids to be served by their efforts and for the amazing instructors who put it all together.

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Atom 1.10 Hackable Text Editor Released with New Atom Package Manager Build

Today, August 31, 2016, GitHub has had the great pleasure of announcing the release and immediate availability of the Atom 1.10 stable version of their hackable text editor for application developers and programmers, along with the Beta of Atom 1.11.

Atom 1.10 is here exactly 30 days after the launch of the Atom 1.9 and Atom 1.10 Beta builds on the first day of August 2016, and, as promised during the Beta stages of development, the biggest new feature of the Atom 1.10 stable release is the upgrade of the Atom Package Manager (APM) to run on Node 4.4.5 and npm 3.10.5.

According to the release notes, the new APM version has multiple benefits, starting with the minimalization of the package dependencies required to run Atom, which should solve many... (read more)

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BlackArch Linux Ethical Hacking OS Is Now Powered by Kernel 4.7.2, New ISOs Out

On August 30, 2016, the development team behind the BlackArch Linux penetration testing distribution based on Arch Linux have announced the release of new Live ISO images with updated components and various improvements.

The BlackArch 2016-08-30 ISO images are here to replace the previous ISOs, namely BlackArch 2016-08-19, and upgrade the kernel packages to the latest Linux 4.7.2 release, as well as to add various improvements to the BlackArch Linux installer, repair a bug in the strap.sh script, and update all the core components and in-house built tools.

"Today we released new BlackArch Linux ISOs. This is just a bugfix release. For more details see the changelog," said the BlackArch Linux developers in the brief blog announcement. "We wish to thank all of BlackA... (read more)

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Kali Linux 2016.2 Released as the Most Advanced Penetration Testing Distribution

The Kali Linux (successor of BackTrack) developers are back from the DEF CON Vegas and Black Hat conferences for security professionals and ethical hackers, and, as they promised earlier this year, they're now announcing the availability of Kali Linux 2016.2.

What's Kali Linux 2016.2? Well, it's an updated Live ISO image of the popular GNU/Linux distribution designed for ethical hackers and security professionals who want to harden the security of their networks, which contains the latest software versions and enhancements for those who want to deploy the OS on new systems.

It's been quite some time since the last update to the official Kali Linux Live ISOs and new software releases are announced each day, which means that the packages included in the previous Kali Linux images are very old, and bugs and improvements are always implemented in the most recent versions of the respective security tools.

"Since our last release several months ago, there’s a few hundre... (read more)

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Acer Predator 21 X – World’s First “Curved Screen Laptop” With Two Graphics Cards

Short Bytes: Acer has made history by launching the world’s first laptop with a curved screen and a 21-inch display...

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Installing BlackArch Linux on a Raspberry Pi

Would you like to use a Raspberry Pi as a topflight security tool? Here’s how to install BlackArch Linux on a Pi to get you on your way.

The Raspberry Pi Report

Currently Kali Linux is the de facto OS for those looking to do security research or penetration testing, but that could be changing in the months and years to come. This month BlackArch Linux, another penetration testing OS, released new ISOs that could put it ahead of Kali. BlackArch now includes over 1,500 tools for penetration testing and security research as well as support for kernel 4.7.1. In the months to come, I’ll write about using select tools from BlackArch on the Raspberry Pi, but in order to get to that point, we first need to install it. Instead of taking any credit for the install steps or reproduce them over again, I’m simply going to provide links to the same steps that I found and followed which lead me to a successful install of both Arch Linux and BlackArch on my Raspberry Pi 3.

While BlackArch is considered a distribution in its own right, it can also be installed on top of a current Arch install, which is the route I recently took. Using that route, BlackArch will serve as a repository, which then allows you to install as many of the BlackArch tools you desire. The steps to install Arch Linux on the Raspberry Pi are pretty easy. If you plan on installing Arch on a Raspberry Pi other than the Raspberry Pi 3, follow the exact same install steps except instead of running the command wget http://ift.tt/1FBnZOi you would run the command wget http://ift.tt/2bSin9l, which is the same command with the “-2” removed. Another point to note for the Arch install, all of step 5 needs to be run as root, not via sudo. After performing the install steps, you should have now have Arch Linux on your Raspberry Pi of choice.

With Arch now installed, we can continue on with installing BlackArch Linux on top of our new Arch install. The steps for installing BlackArch Linux on top of Arch are pretty straight-forward. I do like the fact that they added the sha1sum check in the installation steps, which has become an important step to take during any install since the Linux Mint hack earlier this year. Another nice feature of the install is that you can choose to either install all of the BlackArch tools, install an entire category or install tools one at a time.

Now with our Raspberry Pi using BlackArch Linux, we can begin taking steps to harden our network of choosing and begin performing security research. I found this to be a fun project, since I have a couple of Raspberry Pis that aren’t doing anything and network/security research provides them some use. If you have any problems during the install process, please leave a comment. Also if there are any BlackArch tools you would like to hear more about or see written about, please leave a comment as well and I’ll make it happen.

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Distribution Release: Kali Linux 2016.02

Kali Linux is a Debian Testing-based distribution which includes many forensic and data recovery tools. The distribution uses a rolling release model for updates with Kali Linux 2016.02 providing the most recent snapshot of packages. "During these past few months, we've been busy adding new relevant tools to....

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Net Neutrality Wins! Europe’s Plan To Stop Greedy Telcos From Controlling The Internet

Short Bytes: The BEREC has published a set of new neutrality guidelines which would be adopted by the European Parliament in...

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Open Source Leader Red Hat Lands On Forbes’ “World’s Most Innovative Companies” List

Short Bytes: Red Hat Inc. has landed on the 25th position on Forbes’ World’s Most Innovative Companies list. Founded more than...

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BSD Release: GhostBSD 10.3

The GhostBSD project develops a desktop friendly operating system based on FreeBSD. The project has updated its 10.x series with the launch of GhostBSD 10.3. The new version supports booting on UEFI-enabled computers, supports ZFS volumes and includes VirtualBox modules. "What changed in GhostBSD 10.3: The installer partition....

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Jarvis, Please Lock the Front Door

Years ago, we put out a request for articles on home automation. About the time Eureka came out on TV, people wanted to have their very own SARAH (Self Actuated Residential Automated Habitat), and it seemed like the perfect time for nerds everywhere to make their houses smart. more>>

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Development Release: openSUSE 42.2 Beta 1

Ludwig Nussel has announced the availability of the first beta build of openSUSE 42.2, the upcoming new stable release scheduled to arrive on 16 November 2016: "openSUSE 42.2 beta 1 is on the mirrors. Even though it's called beta 1, the base system is mostly in sync with....

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openSUSE Leap 42.2 Linux Now in Beta, Final Release Expected November 16, 2016

Today, August 31, 2016, the openSUSE Project, through Douglas DeMaio, has proudly announced the availability of the first Beta pre-release version of the upcoming openSUSE Leap 42.2 Linux operating system.

openSUSE Leap 42.2 Beta is here five weeks after the debut of the third and last Alpha milestone, trying to bring more up-to-date GNU/Linux technologies and address many of the issues reported by users during this time.

However, in the good tradition of keeping it a rock-solid GNU/Linux distribution powered by well-tested components, openSUSE Leap 42.2 won't contain the latest versions of the software projects included.

For example, software like Qt 5.6 not Qt 5.7 or systemd 228 not systemd 231 are included, so if you want the most advanced releases, you should then adopt the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling operating system instead.

"Leap is for pragmatic and conservat... (read more)

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Fedora 25 Alpha Officially Released, Now Running Wayland By Default

Short Bytes: The Fedora Project has made the first and only Alpha Release of Fedora 25 available for download. This...

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Intel Unveils Kaby Lake — 7th Generation Intel Core Processors For “Immersive Internet”

Short Bytes: Intel has announced its next generation processors based on the 14-nm Kaby Lake architecture. The 7th Gen Core...

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Heard Of Blue Screen of Death? There Are Black, Red, Green, White, Purple, Gray, Yellow, Brown Also

Short Bytes: You might be familiar with the famous Windows STOP error known as the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)....

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Dropbox Hacked — Details Of 68 Million Accounts Leaked By Hackers

Short Bytes: The long-rumored Dropbox data breach has now been confirmed by the company. This hack has affected more than...

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How To Compress Drive To Save Disk Space Using NTFS Compression?

Short Bytes: Microsoft Windows has abilities to compress your hard drive. The compression works for the drives formatted using the NTFS...

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For The First Time Ever, Apple’s iOS “Failure Rate” Is Higher Than Android’s

Short Bytes: Apple’s iOS mobile operating system is generally considered more stable as compared to Google’s Android operating system. However,...

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Amazing Artists Are Needed to Contribute New Wallpapers to Ubuntu 16.10 Linux OS

Yes, it's that time of the year again, when your artist skills are needed for a new collection of astonishing wallpapers that will be included by default in the upcoming Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) operating system.

Once again, Nathan Haines has the enormous pleasure of announcing that the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase wallpaper gathering event for the next Ubuntu Linux release starts now, and the community is urged to contribute beautiful wallpapers that will enchant both newcomers and veterans of one of the most popular Linux kernel-based operating systems.

"The Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase is a way to celebrate the Free Culture movement, where talented artists across the globe create media and release it under licenses that encourage sharing and adaptation. We're looking for content which shows off the skill and talent of these amazing artists and will greet Ubuntu 16.10 ... (read more)

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Kernel for Raspberry Pi 2 Updated to Fix Eight Vulnerabilities

We reported the other day on the availability of new kernel updates for the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), as well as for the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating systems.

One day later, on August 30, 2016, Canonical published a new security advisory to inform the Ubuntu Linux community about the availability of an updated kernel for the Raspberry Pi 2 port of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system, patching the same eight vulnerabilities discovered in the desktop and server kernel packages.

If you didn't read our previous report, we can tell you now that among the patched kernel security f... (read more)

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OpenShot 2.1 Open-Source Video Editor Adds Audio Waveform Support, New Features

The development team behind the open-source OpenShot video editor software were more than proud to announce the release and immediate availability of OpenShot 2.1, the latest, most advanced and stable branch of the acclaimed application.

As many of you might have expected, OpenShot 2.1 is a massive release that includes a huge number of new features, starting with support for some of the most important animation functionalities around, such as transparent image sequences, multiple layers, and powerful keyframe support.

"When combined properly, you can create some very stunning animations! In July, I attended Texas Linux Fest in Austin, TX with my 16-year-old daughter, Madeline, who happens to be a very talented artist. She created an animation (using OpenShot) LIVE during the expo, while attendees watched and threw out suggestions and ideas," said the dev.

Another interesting feature impl... (read more)

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Canonical Releases Snapd 2.13 Snappy Tool for Ubuntu 16.04 and Fedora 24 (COPR)

Canonical's Michael Vogt was happy to announce the release and immediate availability of a new maintenance update of the Snapd daemon that implements support for Snap universal binary packages in GNU/Linux distributions.

New Snapd point releases are out pretty fast these days, which means that they don't include any major changes, but only some much-needed improvements and support for requested technologies. Threfore, Snapd 2.13 is the third maintenance update released in the month of August 2016.

According to the release notes, Snapd 2.13 is here to introduce a bunch of new interfaces, among which we can mention lxd-support, fuse, and mpris, those adding support for LXD, FUSE, and MPRIS technologies, end-to-end support for the Snap assertions checking functionality, multiple image improvements, and many bug fixes.

"We are happy to announce that the new 2.13 release is released in Ubuntu 16.04 and Fedora 24 (COPR). Other distributions will follow soon," says Micha... (read more)

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Salix 14.2 Xfce Edition Officially Released Based on Slackware 14.2, Xfce 4.12

After being in development for the past three months, the Salix 14.2 Xfce Edition operating system has finally hit the stable channels and it is now available for download.

Based on the Slackware 14.2 GNU/Linux distribution and built around the lightweight and highly customizable Xfce 4.12 desktop environment, Salix 14.2 Xfce Edition ships with numerous improvements and new features that some of you who managed to test drive the Beta and Release Candidate pre-releases are already accustomed with. Of course, many of the core components and default applications have been updated to their latest versions.

"The first thing you will notice, is that when booting one of the ISO images you don't get a boot prompt anymore. What you get is a boot menu and the menu offers options to install Salix in several different languages. So you can now install Salix, not only in English (both US and UK), but also in Dutch, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish (both for Spain and Costa-Rica)... (read more)

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TheSSS 19.0 Linux Server Out with Kernel 4.4.14, Apache 2.4.23 & MariaDB 10.1.16

Softpedia was informed by Zbigniew Konojacki, lead developer and founder of the 4MLinux project, about the immediate availability of the TheSSS 19.0 GNU/Linux distribution.

TheSSS (The Smallest Server Suite) is one of the lightest Linux kernel-based operating systems designed to be used as an all-around server for home users, as well as small and medium-sized business looking for a quick and painless way of distributing files across networks or simply test some web-based software.

Based on the 4MLinux Server 19.0 release, TheSSS 19.0 is powered by the long-term supported Linux 4.4.14 LTS kernel and contains many updated components as part of its built-in, out-of-the-box LAMP (Linux, Apache, MariaDB and PHP) server component, including Apache 2.4.23 web server, MariaDB 10.1.16 database server, and PHP 5.6.25.

"TheSSS (The Smallest Server Suite) is a lightweight server suite distributed as a live CD. This release is based on the 4MLinux Server 19.0, meaning that the... (read more)

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GNOME Control Center 3.22 to Update the Keyboard Settings, Improve Networking

The upcoming GNOME 3.22 desktop environment is still in the works, and a first Beta build was seeded to public beta testers last week, bringing multiple enhancements and new features to most of its core components and apps.

While GNOME 3.22 Beta was announced on the 22nd of August, it appears that the maintainers of certain core packages needed a little more time to work on various improvements and polish their applications before they were suitable for public testing. And this is the case of GNOME Control Center, which was recently updated to version 3.21.90, which means 3.22 Beta.

We've talked a lot here about the GNOME Control Center app and its upcoming redesign, which will be entirely different from what you see right now on your GNOME-based GNU/Linux distribution, as well as on any other OS where this GNOME com... (read more)

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Tor 0.2.8.7 Addresses an Important Bug Related to the ReachableAddresses Option

The Tor Project, through Nick Mathewson, is pleased to inform the Tor community about the release and general availability of yet another maintenance update to the Tor 0.2.8 stable series.

Tor 0.2.8.7 comes exactly twenty days after the release of Tor 0.2.8.6 to address an important issue that has been recently discovered in the ReachableAddresses option. Additionally, Tor 0.2.8.7 is retire the deprecated "Tonga" bridge authority and replace it with the much modern "Bifroest" bridge authority.

"Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting," says Nick Mathewson in the read more)

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